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Consilience : the unity of knowledge

Author: Edward O Wilson
Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998.
Edition/Format:  eBook : Document : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Biologist Wilson, considered to be one of the world's greatest living scientists, argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge, that everything in our world is organized in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws. Wilson, the pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, now once again breaks out of the conventions of current thinking. He shows how and why our explosive rise in intellectual mastery of  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
Additional Physical Format: Print version:
Wilson, Edward O.
Consilience.
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998
(DLC) 97002816
(OCoLC)36528112
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Edward O Wilson
ISBN: 9780804154062 0804154066
OCLC Number: 680423091
Reproduction Notes: Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
Description: 1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations
Details: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Contents: 1. The Ionian enchantment --
2. The great branches of learning --
3. The enlightenment --
4. The natural sciences --
5. Ariadne's thread --
6. The mind --
7. From genes to culture --
8. The fitness of human nature --
9. The social science --
10. The arts and their interpretation --
11. Ethics and religion --
12. To what end?
Responsibility: Edward O. Wilson.

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Biologist Wilson, considered to be one of the world's greatest living scientists, argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge, that everything in our world is organized in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws. Wilson, the pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, now once again breaks out of the conventions of current thinking. He shows how and why our explosive rise in intellectual mastery of the truths of our universe has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos--a vision that found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment, then gradually was lost in the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge in the last two centuries. Drawing on the physical sciences and biology, anthropology, psychology, religion, philosophy, and the arts, Professor Wilson shows why the goals of the original Enlightenment are reappearing on the frontiers of science and humanistic scholarship.--From publisher description.

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